Logs

Streamlining Container Log Management for Clarity and Control Hello, New Relic aficionados! Picture this: you’re at a bustling local user group meetup, exchanging ideas and sharing tech stories. Amidst the animated discussions and clinking coffee cups, a fellow developer—let’s call him Alex—shares a frustrating puzzle. Alex’s Docker Compose applications are acting like rebellious teenagers, sending their logs to the New Relic Host UI instead of their designated New Relic Container UI. As you dive deeper into the problem, a light bulb goes off. This isn’t just Alex’s struggle; it’s a common snag affecting many of us in the Docker and New Relic community. ...

“Instrumentation” is one of those words that gets thrown around constantly in the observability world - but what does it actually mean, and how does it work in practice? I’ve run this as a hands-on workshop several times, and what I find most effective is starting from first principles: build a tiny app, make it produce telemetry, and watch what comes out. By the end you understand why the pieces fit together the way they do. ...